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Henry Chung's Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook

Henry Chung

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

henry chung's hunan cooking 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I have searched for a copy of this wonderful book for over 5 years and have recently found it,it is my most treasured of many cookbooks! I have been a customer of this wonderful actually fabulous restaurant in San Francisco for over 20 years, it just seems to be just as wonderful as before!This book has allowed me to duplicate my favorite hot and sour chicken many times over. what a shame it is out of print, Henry is very much alive and the place still a success. what a wonderful, simple and accurate book,hopefully this book will someday be back in print and I may share it with my friends.

Chinese food will never be the same after trying this book 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

For those who love to eat or cook Chinese food, this book is a must-have. It details about 50 tasty recipes from Hunan province in China, and is totally authentic. The author has avoided "spicing down" recipes for American readers -- garlic, hot chiles and other Hunan staples are used boldly and creatively, and your taste buds will be crying out for more after trying these gems. In fact, my wife, who is herself Chinese, relies on Henry Chung's book more than the Chinese-language cookbooks she brought from Taiwan. It really is that good.

Editorial Review:

"At last a Chinese cookbook that really works."--New York Times. A highly personalized cookbook featuring 75 recipes and many anecdotes. 35 black-and-white photographs.

Classic 1000 Chinese Recipes

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

If you love Chinese food, buy it! 5 out of 5 stars.
26 of 31 people found this review helpful.

I love Chinese food. A friend gave me this book. It turned out to be one of the most recipe books I use. It is excellent. The recipes are authentic, accurate and very tasty. I highly recommend it for any Chinese food-lover like myself. I use it almost once a week. It never turns me down.

A review from México 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Very good recipes, easy to follow instructions but not enough pictures for so many recipes.

Editorial Review:

You've never seen such a magnificent spread! This collection includes all your favorite Chinese dishes-deep-fried prawns, crispy duck, beef noodles, marinades, dips, garlic, and ginger- the list goes on. Special sections feature lesser-known regional cuisines, vegetarian dishes, and even quick-fix snack foods with a Chinese flair. With this book you can plan menus that combine the exotic and the familiar into a meal that is uniquely your own. Instructions are clear and easy to follow even for the newcomer to Chinese cuisine.

The Chinese Way: Healthy Low-Fat Cooking from China's Regions

Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

"Dear Eileen, I have cooked French with pleasure for forty-eight years and now that I have read your book, The Chinese Way, I have become enthusiastic about cooking Chinese. I am sure it will help me to get rid of any accumulated pounds." —Andre Soltner "As chefs in search of menu inspiration know, a new book by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo is always a mandatory buy. In her newest, she manages to hit a double bull's-eye, delivering both a superb repertory of easily cooked, complexly-flavored regional Chinese dishes, and a sophisticatedly-tasty solution for lowering intake of fats." —Michael and Ariane Batterberry Founding Editors/Associate Publishers Food Arts magazine "To live well is the definition of happiness. To dine well on Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's healthy Chinese food is the definition of divine." —George Lang The Chinese Way As anyone who has cooked it at home knows, Chinese cooking is almost inherently healthful. Traditional cooking techniques like water blanching, stir-frying, and steaming are not only healthy, they bring out the best, natural flavors in food. In Chinese cooking, oils are used minimally, marinated meats are used to flavor a dish, not dominate it, and healthful foods like vegetables, rice, and noodles are staples. With traditional, but lightened, Chinese dishes and many of the author's own creations, plus nutritional information for every recipe for calorie- and fat-gram counters, The Chinese Way is a must for anyone who loves the flavors of the Far East.

The Chinese Chicken Cookbook: 100 Easy-to-Prepare, Authentic Recipes for the American Table

Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

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Editorial Review:

In China the chicken represents the phoenix, the mythological bird that rose from its ashes and that symbolizes rebirth and reaffirmation. Because of this deeply held belief, chicken is served at every New Year celebration, every wedding feast, and every birthday dinner. The chicken is honored for its eggs, its meat, and the flavor it provides for stocks and broths. Because of the reverence for this bird, the Chinese prepare chicken in myriad ways. Chicken is steamed, baked, boiled, stir-fried, deep-fried, pan-fried, and roasted. It is served hot, cold, or at room temperature. No part of the chicken is wasted from its bones to its skin to its feet, a Chinese delicacy.

Now, renowned Chinese cooking expert Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, who has been called "the Marcella Hazan of Chinese cooking" by The New York Times, brings her love of Chinese cooking and traditional Chinese chicken recipes to American home cooks in The Chinese Chicken Cookbook.

The Chinese Chicken Cookbook brings together more than one hundred of the best traditional and modern chicken recipes of China from simple stir-fries to more elaborate celebration dishes. In chapters that pair chicken with noodles and rice and in chapters on soup, preparing chicken in the wok, and cooking it whole, readers will find dozens of delicious, easy-to-prepare delicacies. Recipes such as Two-Sesame Chicken, Hot and Sour Soup, Ginger Noodles with Chicken, Chicken Water Dumplings, Chicken Stir-Fried with Broccoli, Mu Shu Chicken with Bok Bang, Mah-Jongg Chicken, and Asparagus Wrapped in Minced Chicken offer new and flavorful ways to prepare chicken whether you're making a quick weeknight meal or having dinner guests on a Saturday night.

Although these recipes use ingredients that home chefs can find in the international section of a well-stocked supermarket or on the Internet, Lo includes the Chinese names for ingredients and recipes, rendered in beautiful Chinese calligraphic characters. Not only decorative, these characters can help you locate unfamiliar ingredients in a Chinese market. The Chinese Chicken Cookbook also has sections on how to select and clean a chicken, a detailed explanation of Chinese ingredients, suggested equipment (including how to properly season a wok), and how to cook a perfect pot of rice.

With wonderful family stories from the author's childhood in China, The Chinese Chicken Cookbook is not just a cookbook for your cookbook library, it is a source of culinary inspiration.

The Chinese Kitchen: A Book of Essential Ingredients with Over 200 Easy and Authentic Recipes

Deh-Ta Hsiung

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

good information & nice photos 5 out of 5 stars.
24 of 25 people found this review helpful.

Deh-Ta Hsiung is a British-based mainland-trained chef whose polite opinions keep this nicely organized and illustrated book interesting. Although he ignores much of the Cantonese-style cooking that is prevalent in many Chinese cookbooks available in the US, his information is traditional, accurate, and all of the 10 or so recipes I've tried so far have been good. Ingredients such as tofu, oyster sauce, malt sugar, five-spice powder, and Sichuan peppercorns are presented individually with Chinese characters, Pinyin, English, and Latin (for the plants) and photographs of the ingredient and recipes and photos of one or two representative dishes. There's also information provided on how the ingredient grows or is produced or packaged, what it looks and tastes like, how to buy and store it, some basic medicinal uses,...and recipes! I like to use the book in combination with Nina Simonds' and Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's books--taking the best of each.

Editorial Review:

There's no cuisine more rich with flavor, color, texture, variety, and tradition than Chinese cooking. From the familiar to the exotic, this comprehensive and stunningly illustrated sourcebook, organized by ingredient, is a master chef's catalog of what makes this centuries-old cuisine so vibrant today.

Complete with historical background, information on buying and storing ingredients, and exquisite recipes, The Chinese Kitchen is a must-have for everyone's Chinese kitchen. Entries include: Bean Sprouts - Black Bean Sauce - Chinese Cabbage - Dumplings - Eggplant - Five Spice Powder - Ginger - Lotus Root - Peanuts - Plum Sauce - Shrimp Paste - Soft-Shell Crab - Straw Mushrooms - Tofu - Tea - Wontons - Water Chestnuts and much more.

Great Garnishes (Wei-Chuan's cookbook)

Su-Huei Huang, Wei-Chuan Publishing

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Oh boy! 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This book is all about challenge. Carving, carving and carving. For those of you who don't have any talent for this kind of work should skip it. But it also contains a simple decoration but beautiful such as flowers pots. Professional chefs who won awards wrote this book. They are showing incredible techniques and the results are worth to keep as a house decoration! But phiew, talk about myself trying to be at least near those result probably will take zillion of practices. Some of the carvings techniques have to use your own imagination because the guidelines aren't that detail. Example, carving a monkey! This is a hard book. The pages are full with colored photos. Bottom line is that this book is for those who want to be a pro or really love challenges. But for the rest this book is worthy as a collection.

Exceptional vegetable carvings!! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful.

The first few pages are garnishes by Tomi Carey, which are average to OK..but everything after that is superb!! If you have imagination, you can craft masterpieces by following the guidelines/samples in the book. But if you don't have an artistic bone in you, then find another basic beginers book. Excellent buy!

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Bilingual: English and Chinese.

Classic Chinese Cuisine

Nina Simonds

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Excellent! Authentic chinese flavor using common ingredients 5 out of 5 stars.
34 of 34 people found this review helpful.

I have tried a few recipes from this book including the sweet moon cake, curry turnovers, and steamed cake (MA LA GAU)...all turned out delicious. Even my mother told me to purchase this book (I originally borrowed it from the library) because she was so impressed! Considering that we are immigrants from Taiwan, we know good chinese food when we taste it and Ms. Simonds has great chinese food. She does not always use traditional methods or ingredients in her recipes...but the end result is always fabulous. Cannot say enough about this book!

Editorial Review:

Repeatedly singled out as one of the all-time cookbook bibles, Classic Chinese Cuisine is a thorough introduction to the basics of Chinese cooking, covering all the essential techniques, ingredients, and cooking utensils, with more than 225 recipes, step-by-step illustrations, and full-color photographs. Nina Simonds has an unerring eye for the most approachable and delicious dishes in the Chinese repertoire, from Crispy-Skin Duck and Hundred-Corner Shrimp Balls to Lemon Chicken Wings and Dry-Cooked String Beans.

Chinese Cuisine, Made Simple

Dorothy Huang

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

This is a really good book!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
17 of 18 people found this review helpful.

Dorothy Huang has been teaching cooking classes on Chinese food for 30+ years. Her first book was written in 1980. She has revised and perfected the recipes over the years and added more than 80 new recipes. She teaches her classes with recipes straight out of this book. Unlike many books that are just a collection of recipes that have only been tested a few times, Mrs. Huang has refined the instructions and ingredients in her recipes by cooking and teaching them hundreds of times. The book has nice glossy pages, several color photographs as well as a guide for package identification, ingredient substitution and descriptions to help as a guide when purchasing the ingredients. Very detailed instructions are provided for more complicated tasks such as making Wontons, rolling spring rolls, etc. Most of the ingredients in her recipes can be obtained from the international section of a local grocery store.

This book contains all of the recipes in which most Americans are familiar. Spring Rolls, Egg Rolls, several great dipping and stir frying sauces, Orange Chicken, Orange Beef, Moo Goo Gai Pan, several tofu dishes, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Sweet and Sour Fish, Lemon Chicken, General Tso's Chicken, Sesame Chicken, Kung Pao Shrimp, Kung Pao Chicken, Wonton Soup, Moo Shu, Potstickers, etc. This list goes on and on and does not stray away from the subject.

I have several hundred cookbooks in my library and this book and Stuart Chang Berman's Potsticker Chronicles are the best two books on the subject of Chinese Cuisine. Mr. Berman's book is a little more "Americanized" in the fact that there is a lot more sauce used on in his dishes.

PS: I don't review books unless I have cooked several recipes from them. You can't judge a book by its cover and you can honestly judge a recipe without cooking and eating it.

Editorial Review:

Dorothy Huang demystifies Chinese cooking and takes you through a culinary journey step-by-step in preparing delectable Chinese dishes. She makes cooking fun. This beautiful book contains 160 mouth-watering recipes that emphasize nutritional value, easy preparation, and taste appeal. Gorgeous photographs appear throughout the book. The pictures of Chinese condiments, ingredients, and vegetables are especially helpful to beginners. It's a great shopping guide. Dazzle your family and friends by using the recipes in this book. They'll think you are the greatest Chinese cook on earth!

The Noodle Shop Cookbook

Jacki Passmore

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

delicious, authentic 4 out of 5 stars.
14 of 16 people found this review helpful.

This book is a household standby in the households of at least two third-generation Asian-Americans I know. The recipes are low-fat, flavorful, and authentic, somehow without being too exotic for most American palates. They're generally easy enough for the novice cook, and detailed sidebars tell you how to slice meat, chop onions, etc. "the Asian way". Compared to ethnic cookbooks, which have me scurrying around the city shelling out way too much money on frivolities like sundried tomatoes, the ingredients needed by this book are extremely reasonably priced (as long as you live somewhere on the American coastline).

Editorial Review:

When Americans think of noodles, it's not just about Italy anymore -- with Asian noodle shops more popular than ever,The Noodle Shop Cookbook makes it easy to enjoy the wide variety of Asian noodle dishes. Introductory chapters cover all the basics: tips for buying and cooking, the types of noodles available like soba, somen, or udon, recipes for numerous stocks and noodle broths, and instructions on how to prepare homemade noodles. There's even a chapter of recipes for vegetarian dishes and a special chapter featuring the author's own personal creations. Here cooks will find delicious Chiu Cou Noodles in Sesame Sauce, Spicy Singapore Noodles, Teriyaki Soba, and Chicken Noodles in Coconut Soup. The Noodle Shop Cookbook makes this dietary mainstay of Asia easy, delicious and fun to eat.

Practical Korean Cooking

Chin-hwa Noh

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

reminiscent of my mom's cookbooks 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

first of all- if you're going to buy any books by noh chin-hwa- make sure this is the one. i bought traditional side dishes by the author- and it was basically just a chapter cut out of this book. i should have listened to the person who also stated the fact in a review.

i'm twenty something- and this cookbook reminds me of my mom's chinese cookbooks from the 70's. Sure it's photography and dish ware are dated- but the recipes and instructions are fantastic. i'm completely leery of the recipe for raw liver, and it is true the instructions do seem very time consuming... however i read in Korean cuisine by wei-chaun- that a lot of traditional korean cooking techniques are very daunting tasks.

i bought about 6 korean cookbooks after eating at a korean restaurant- they all seem to have the same dishes with very little variation. this book however expands beyond the bulgogi... the chige...and the kimchi. One such item would be the fermented soy bean lumps. now i don't intend to try this recipe- but i found it really interesting that the instructions include- "remove the mold and dust from the fermented soybean lumps two days before using" I'm chinese american- so i'm pretty much used to weird ingredients. the american side of me however is pretty nitpicky about "is this clean? is that mold? is that still good?" i often buy dried wood ears- but because they have a faint white moldy look to them i'm reluctant to actually use them.

anyways this is what i consider to be what a cookbook should be. pictures of every single recipe and photos of instructions as well. i wish it also had photos of the ingredients- with the glossary area- but there are plenty of photos of the ingredients pre cooking- to get an idea of what to look for in the korean grocery stores. fabulous! worth the $$ !!!!

Editorial Review:

This book offers the first recipes of genuine Korean cookery written in English. It is comprehensive with 192 recipes and 1,026 instructional color photos. This volume is the cominbation of three individual cookbooks - Healthful Korean Cooking: Meats & Poultry, Low-Fat Korean Cooking: Fish, Shellfish & Vegetables and Traditional Korean Cooking: Snacks & Basic Side Dishes. Not only are the most popular and well-known dishes represented, but also many known only to the Korean palate. The delicate flavours and subtle combinations of basic ingredients have a unique appeal for all palates. Makes a great gift for anyone interested in learning Korean cooking.